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The Education Department offers a minor in Education. Students may take Education courses singly, to fill distributive requirements or as electives, or in a sequence that will satisfy the requirements for the minor. Any cross-listed courses used for the Education minor requires sign-up in the Education enrollment.

Minor in Education

The minor is designed to help students to build and use an integrated, multilevel understanding of learning and development based on critical analysis of theory, policy, and empirical data from education, neuroscience, and psychology. The courses explore how children grow, acquire language, think, reason, learn a variety of skills and knowledge, and how they conceptualize their social, emotional, and moral worlds.

The minor is composed of six courses:

EDUC001 - the introductory course (strongly recommended this course be taken first)

five other Education courses excluding 7 (under College policy, First-Year Seminars may not be counted toward the minor)

Diversity and inclusivity are necessary partners. Without inclusivity, the benefits of diversity— an increase in understanding, improvement in performance, enhanced innovation, and heightened levels of satisfaction—will not be realized. We commit to investments in both, to create a community in which difference is valued, where each individual's identity and contributions are treated with respect, and where differences lead to a strengthened identity for all.

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Gurin, P. (1999b). New research on the benefits of diversity in college and beyond: An empirical analysis. Diversity Digest, 3(3).